Card catalog cabinet

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I have wanted a card catalog for the longest time. I have drooled over them online. I would pet them in antique stores. I could not, however, find one that would fit well in our home or wasn't one trillion dollars. My other concern was that card catalogs are p

tina le mac 🌙 | DIY + home on Instagram: "This vintage library card catalog cabinet was the deal of a lifetime and I just could not pass it up! 👏🏼 I really wanted to keep some of the wear and tear on it so lightly restoring it was my best option—because there’s no way I was painting over this beautiful wood! But who knows, maybe in the future I will completely refinish it with a complete restoration. For now, all my craft and art supplies have a place to live and I have sooo much more…

If you were with me in Instagram stories, you will remember when I found this dresser in the trash pile at a thrift store. There was nothing wrong with it, besides the ugly paint color. I’m not sure why they intended to throw it away. It’s not the most expensive wood in the world, but

Quarter-sawn solid oak card catalog with 35 storage drawers of uniform size. The catalog portion detaches from the wheeled base for ease of transportation. Each drawer includes the original tin nameplates and iron drawer pulls. Exhibits minor signs of wear and retains original varnish. 29.5" W x 23.5" D x 53.5" H Drawers (x35): 4.25" W x 20" D x 4" H

Sometime last year, I went on this frenzy of looking for a used card catalog that I could make beautiful. In my mind, I thought that a nice big card catalog would be the perfect

KALLAX reimagined as a Modern Card Catalog Cabinet. Easy DIY to transform the IKEA KALLAX into an apothecary cabinet with real drawers.

I have always wanted a piece of furniture with a bunch of tiny drawers. My mom had a spice cabinet on the wall of our kitchen growing that I would hide all sorts of treasures in. As I grew up I wanted my boys to have something similar. What I really wanted was a card catalog. I have actively searched for one for one for about three years. And the ones I found were either too big or too expensive. Every once in a while I would find a decently priced one on ebay but then I would notice the…

Vintage library card catalog makeover via DIYontheCheap.com.

After sitting in our garage for over a year, an old piece of a library becomes my repurposed card catalog - stop by and see how we did it!